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One Piccadilly Gardens | Piccadilly Gardens is a green space in Manchester city centre, England, situated at one end of Market Street (a busy shopping area) and on the edge of the Northern Quarter. History
Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens was the original site of the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
 is a new office development currently on site in Manchester, designed by architect Allies and Morrison Allies and Morrison are a London-based architecture practice founded by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison in 1984 following their success in the competition for the redesign of the public space at the Mound, Edinburgh. The practice now employs over 200 people. . The ground floor will contain office, retail and restaurant spaces, with offices on the six upper floors, wrapped around a central atrium. The external facade is constructed of brickwork and Kawneers Series 1612 curtain walling curtain wall

Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy costs gave impetus to the concept of the tall building as a glass prism, an idea originally put forth by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies
 system with specially extruded face caps. At fourth floor level, Kawneers Series 1203 Slope Glaze glaze, in pottery
glaze, translucent layer that coats pottery to give the surface a finish or afford a ground for decorative painting. Glazes—transparent, white, or colored—are fired on the clay.
 system will be installed over the atrium.

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